A suit-wearing robber armed with a handgun has stolen £2million in precious gems from a high-class French jeweller - before escaping on an e-scooter.
The hit took place around 5pm Tuesday in Paris's Place Vendome, a short walk from the Louvre, when a grey-haired man believed to be in his 50s or 60s walked into the famous Chaumet jewellers, asked to see valuable items, then pulled out a gun.
Staff handed over jewellery estimated to be worth between £2million and £3million before the thief fled on an e-scooter, with security unable to catch him.
CCTV cameras captured the astonishing getaway.
An armed robber who used an e-scooter to steal more than £2million worth of jewellery from flagship Chaumet store in Paris was caught on camera. Images of the man – who was wearing a blue sanitary mask and a grey suit – were posted on Wednesday
'He arrived on an e-scooter with a gun, went in to the Chaumet store in Rue Francois I to threaten staff, and came out with a collection of jewels and watches,' said an investigating source.
'Nobody was hurt in the raid, and he simply disappeared on his scooter, with no-one able to catch him,' the source added.
CCTV also captured the moment the man arrived at the store, with staff helping him through bullet-proof glass doors before bringing out fine jewellery for him to view.
Cameras then show how he pulled out an automatic pistol and demanded staff hand over the items, before fleeing.
'He also told staff that he had planted a bomb and it would go off if they told police,' said the source.
'Then he demanded the keys to the shop, and locked everyone inside when he left.
'This gave him plenty of time to get back on his e-scooter and disappear in the direction of a Metro station on the Champs-Élysées, where he took a train.'
The man was described as being 'well built, grey-haired and in his 50s or 60s'.
A source at Chaumet later estimated the value of the loss at between 'two and three million euros'.
